Since starting work on my master’s degree, I’ve found myself thinking more and more about Second Life, the online virtual world that once seemed to…
Searching for the perfect café mocha
Author: Michael Hawkes
Michael Hawkes is a professional computer technician who writes open source PHP code as a hobby, and spends the rest of his spare time playing with his cats, working in the garden, and working on a master's degree in education. He is the sole-proprietor of 10th Street Media, LLC.
Over the past several decades, from the post-World War 2 era until now, three major theories or concepts have been applied to education. This week…
As the title says, this week’s readings covered the instructional development process, but I’m not sure if the phrase fully captures what was written. “Designing…
I had hoped to write this third R511 blog this past weekend, but life intervened. The heat went out in my house on Saturday, so…
It’s time for the second blog of the semester for EDUC-R511, and I guess I’m still getting into the swing of things. Last semester, when…
When I saw that the journal article we’d been assigned to read, My Pedagogic Creed by John Dewey, was published in 1897, I knew it…
This will be sort of interesting. This semester, one of my professors wants us to blog about our thoughts on the assigned readings instead of…
Many years ago, during the recession that started in 2008, I started going back to school to earn a TESOL certificate. I was thinking about…
In this (late) video, I talk about my fluctuating weight from the past week.
Given the latest news about VOVID-19, I leave the medical advice to the experts, and instead talk about pandemics in film and literature.